Sunil V. Rao, MD, FACC   Sunil V. Rao, MD, FACC is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at the Durham VA Medical Center, and an Associate Editor of The American Heart Journal.   His main research interests include pharmacological and interventional therapies for acute coronary syndromes and bleeding and blood transfusion complications among patients with ischemic heart disease.   Dr. Rao is the principal investigator for the Clinical Outcomes Assessment Program, an ongoing statewide quality improvement initiative for percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass surgery in Washington state. He is also a coinvestigator on the NIH-funded REVEAL trial, which is a phase 2 randomized trial of intravenous erythropoietin in patients with acute ST-segment elevation MI.

David P. Lorenz, MD, FACC Dr. Lorenz joined Cardiology Associates of Fairfield County, one of Connecticut’s largest cardiology practices on July 1, 2005. Dr. Lorenz completed his Cardiovascular, Interventional and Peripheral Vascular Intervention Fellowships at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.   Dr. Lorenz received his B.A. from Duke University and his medical degree from Georgetown University of School of Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he also served as the Chief Medicine Resident.   Dr. Lorenz’s cardiology interests are coronary interventional procedures, including balloon angioplasty/stent placement and vascular interventional procedures including carotid artery stent placement and renal/lower extremity angioplasty and stenting.